"This is my sister, who has come up before the new people on earth. I
don't know what she will do yet."
When Olelbis was building his sweat-house in Olelpanti, he cut a piece
from a white-oak tree, and this piece rolled down outside the sky to
the lower world, where it became a people in Nor Puiken, in the
southeast, and that people were there before the present Wintus came
out of the ground at Tsarau Heril.
"My dear sister has come up before the Wintus, and will be with them
hereafter," said Olelbis. "I have not settled yet how her work is to
be, have not made her ready for it."
He put his hand toward the southeast then, and took yósoü (a plant
that has a red blossom). He gave this plant to Norwan, and said,--
"Take this, my sister, and when you dance use it as a staff. It will
have a blossom on the top which will be blooming always."
He reached southeast to the same place, took a small bird, plucked a
feather from each wing, gave the feathers to Norwan, and said,--
"My sister, thrust these through your hair, just above your forehead,
one on each side. These feathers will begin to sing in the morning
early; you will know by them at what time you must begin to dance."
He stretched his hand again to the southeast, and took buri luli,
which is a little red blossom that grows in spring on a plant about a
foot high. He gave the blossoms to Norwan and said,--
"Roll this in your hands, crush it, put the juice on your face, and
make your cheeks red."
Olelbis turned then to his grandmothers, who were standing near by,
and asked if they had acorns.
"We have," said they. "We have plenty."